The Highwayman

Song The Highwayman
Artist Loreena McKennitt
Album Live in Paris and Toronto

Lyrics

[00:00.00] 作词 : McKennitt, Noyes
[00:47.78] Music: Loreena McKennitt
[00:52.78] lyrics: Alfred Noyes
[00:57.78] abridged by Loreena McKennitt
[01:02.78]
[01:07.78] The wind was a torrent of darkness
[01:10.42] among the gusty trees
[01:13.33] The moon was a ghostly galleon
[01:15.89] tossed upon the cloudy seas
[01:18.85] The road was a ribbon of moonlight
[01:21.82] over the purple moor
[01:24.43] And the highwayman came riding,
[01:27.44] Riding, riding,
[01:30.34] The highwayman came riding,
[01:32.73] up to the old inn-door.
[01:35.94]
[01:37.19] He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead
[01:40.11] a bunch of lace at his chin,
[01:42.91] A coat of claret velvet
[01:45.48] and breeches of brown doe-skin
[01:48.33] They fitted with never a wrinkle
[01:51.05] his boots were up to the thigh!
[01:53.91] And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
[01:56.74] His pistol butts a-twinkle,
[01:59.68] His rapier hilt a-twinkle
[02:02.22] under the jewelled sky.
[02:05.09]
[02:06.74] And over the cobbles he clattered
[02:09.38] and clashed in the dark innyard
[02:12.12] And he tapped with his whip on the shutters
[02:15.01] but all was locked and barred;
[02:17.81] He whistled a tune to the window
[02:20.55] and who should be waiting there
[02:23.41] But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
[02:26.50] Bess, the landlord's daughter,
[02:29.40] Plaiting a dark red love-knot
[02:31.84] into her long black hair.
[02:34.51]
[02:36.26] "One kiss, my bonny sweetheart,
[02:38.91] I'm after a prize tonight,
[02:41.72] But I shall be back with the yellow gold
[02:44.66] before the morning light;
[02:47.36] Yet if they press me sharply,
[02:50.06] and harry me through the day,
[02:52.89] Then look for me by the moonlight,
[02:56.07] Watch for me by the moonlight,
[02:58.90] I'll come to thee by the moonlight
[03:01.39] though hell should bar the way.
[03:04.08]
[03:05.74] He rose upright in the stirrups
[03:08.37] he scarce could reach her hand
[03:11.23] But she loosened her hair i' the casement!
[03:14.01] His face burnt like a brand
[03:16.76] As the black cascade of perfume
[03:19.54] came tumbling over his breast;
[03:22.40] And he kissed it's waves in the moonlight,
[03:25.55] (Oh, sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
[03:28.23] Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight
[03:30.88] and galloped away to the west.
[03:34.53]
[03:59.17] He did not come at the dawning;
[04:01.85] he did not come at noon,
[04:04.74] And out of the tawny sunset,
[04:07.42] before the rise o' the moon,
[04:10.18] When the road was a gypsy's ribbon,
[04:13.26] looping the purple moor,
[04:15.87] A red-coat troop came marching,
[04:18.92] Marching, marching
[04:21.53] King George's men came marching,
[04:24.16] up to the old inn-door.
[04:27.66]
[04:28.58] They said no word to the landlord,
[04:31.33] they drank his ale instead,
[04:34.20] But they gagged his daughter and bound her
[04:36.91] to the foot of her narrow bed;
[04:39.71] Two of them knelt at the casement,
[04:42.55] with muskets at their side!
[04:45.32] there was death at every window
[04:48.45] and hell at one dark window;
[04:51.21] For Bess could see, through the casement,
[04:53.78] The road that he would ride.
[04:56.66]
[04:58.13] They had tied her up to attention
[05:00.81] with many a sniggering jest;
[05:03.67] They had bound a musket beside her
[05:06.44] with the barrel beneath her breast!
[05:09.24] "now keep good watch!" And they kissed her.
[05:12.07] She heard the dead man say
[05:14.90] "Look for me by the moonlight
[05:17.95] Watch for me by the moonlight
[05:20.77] I'll come to thee by the moonlight
[05:23.31] though hell should bar the way!"
[05:26.31]
[05:27.54] She twisted her hands behind her
[05:30.29] but all the knots held good!
[05:33.30] She writhed her hands till her fingers
[05:35.97] were wet with sweat or blood!
[05:38.73] They stretched and strained in the darkness
[05:41.57] and the hours crawled by like years!
[05:44.34] Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
[05:47.21] Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
[05:50.32] The tip of one finger touched it!
[05:52.82] The trigger at least was hers!
[05:56.49]
[06:11.29] Tlot-tlot! Had they heard it?
[06:13.98] The horse-hoofs were ringing clear
[06:16.77] Tlot-tlot, in the distance!
[06:19.49] Were they deaf that they did not hear?
[06:22.67] Down the ribbon of moonlight,
[06:25.29] over the brow of the hill,
[06:27.94] The highwayman came riding,
[06:30.93] Riding, riding!
[06:33.74] The red-coats looked to their priming!
[06:36.21] She stood up straight and still!
[06:39.18]
[06:40.56] Tlot in the frosty silence!
[06:43.36] Tlot in the echoing night!
[06:46.45] Nearer he came and nearer!
[06:48.96] Her face was like a light!
[06:51.80] Her eyes grew wide for a moment!
[06:54.50] She drew one last deep breath,
[06:57.34] Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
[07:00.46] Her musket shattered the moonlight,
[07:03.29] Shattered her breast in the moonlight
[07:05.86] and warned him with her death.
[07:09.19]
[07:10.24] He turned; he spurred to the west;
[07:12.87] he did not know she stood
[07:15.70] bowed, with her head o'er the musket,
[07:18.38] drenched with her own red blood!
[07:21.19] Not till the dawn he heard it;
[07:24.10] his face grew grey to hear
[07:26.79] How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
[07:29.77] The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
[07:32.50] Had watched for her love in the moonlight,
[07:35.26] and died in the darkness there.
[07:38.52]
[07:39.71] And back, he spurred like a madman,
[07:42.54] shrieking a curse to the sky
[07:45.24] With the white road smoking behind him
[07:47.90] and his rapier brandished high!
[07:50.73] Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon;
[07:53.62] wine-red was his velvet coat,
[07:56.35] when they shot him down on the highway,
[07:59.13] Down like a dog on the highway,
[08:02.05] And he lay in his blood on the highway,
[08:04.87] with the bunch of lace at his throat.
[08:08.70]
[08:24.81] Still of a winter's night, they say,
[08:27.56] when the wind is in the trees,
[08:30.21] When the moon is a ghostly galleon,
[08:32.92] tossed upon the cloudy seas,
[08:35.81] When the road is a ribbon of moonlight
[08:38.85] over the purple moor,
[08:41.50] A highwayman comes riding,
[08:44.47] Riding, riding,
[08:47.31] A highwayman comes riding,
[08:49.90] up to the old inn-door
[08:53.96]
[09:36.41]
[10:12.56] END

Pinyin

[00:00.00] zuò cí : McKennitt, Noyes
[00:47.78] Music: Loreena McKennitt
[00:52.78] lyrics: Alfred Noyes
[00:57.78] abridged by Loreena McKennitt
[01:02.78]
[01:07.78] The wind was a torrent of darkness
[01:10.42] among the gusty trees
[01:13.33] The moon was a ghostly galleon
[01:15.89] tossed upon the cloudy seas
[01:18.85] The road was a ribbon of moonlight
[01:21.82] over the purple moor
[01:24.43] And the highwayman came riding,
[01:27.44] Riding, riding,
[01:30.34] The highwayman came riding,
[01:32.73] up to the old inndoor.
[01:35.94]
[01:37.19] He' d a French cocked hat on his forehead
[01:40.11] a bunch of lace at his chin,
[01:42.91] A coat of claret velvet
[01:45.48] and breeches of brown doeskin
[01:48.33] They fitted with never a wrinkle
[01:51.05] his boots were up to the thigh!
[01:53.91] And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
[01:56.74] His pistol butts atwinkle,
[01:59.68] His rapier hilt atwinkle
[02:02.22] under the jewelled sky.
[02:05.09]
[02:06.74] And over the cobbles he clattered
[02:09.38] and clashed in the dark innyard
[02:12.12] And he tapped with his whip on the shutters
[02:15.01] but all was locked and barred
[02:17.81] He whistled a tune to the window
[02:20.55] and who should be waiting there
[02:23.41] But the landlord' s blackeyed daughter,
[02:26.50] Bess, the landlord' s daughter,
[02:29.40] Plaiting a dark red loveknot
[02:31.84] into her long black hair.
[02:34.51]
[02:36.26] " One kiss, my bonny sweetheart,
[02:38.91] I' m after a prize tonight,
[02:41.72] But I shall be back with the yellow gold
[02:44.66] before the morning light
[02:47.36] Yet if they press me sharply,
[02:50.06] and harry me through the day,
[02:52.89] Then look for me by the moonlight,
[02:56.07] Watch for me by the moonlight,
[02:58.90] I' ll come to thee by the moonlight
[03:01.39] though hell should bar the way.
[03:04.08]
[03:05.74] He rose upright in the stirrups
[03:08.37] he scarce could reach her hand
[03:11.23] But she loosened her hair i' the casement!
[03:14.01] His face burnt like a brand
[03:16.76] As the black cascade of perfume
[03:19.54] came tumbling over his breast
[03:22.40] And he kissed it' s waves in the moonlight,
[03:25.55] Oh, sweet black waves in the moonlight!
[03:28.23] Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight
[03:30.88] and galloped away to the west.
[03:34.53]
[03:59.17] He did not come at the dawning
[04:01.85] he did not come at noon,
[04:04.74] And out of the tawny sunset,
[04:07.42] before the rise o' the moon,
[04:10.18] When the road was a gypsy' s ribbon,
[04:13.26] looping the purple moor,
[04:15.87] A redcoat troop came marching,
[04:18.92] Marching, marching
[04:21.53] King George' s men came marching,
[04:24.16] up to the old inndoor.
[04:27.66]
[04:28.58] They said no word to the landlord,
[04:31.33] they drank his ale instead,
[04:34.20] But they gagged his daughter and bound her
[04:36.91] to the foot of her narrow bed
[04:39.71] Two of them knelt at the casement,
[04:42.55] with muskets at their side!
[04:45.32] there was death at every window
[04:48.45] and hell at one dark window
[04:51.21] For Bess could see, through the casement,
[04:53.78] The road that he would ride.
[04:56.66]
[04:58.13] They had tied her up to attention
[05:00.81] with many a sniggering jest
[05:03.67] They had bound a musket beside her
[05:06.44] with the barrel beneath her breast!
[05:09.24] " now keep good watch!" And they kissed her.
[05:12.07] She heard the dead man say
[05:14.90] " Look for me by the moonlight
[05:17.95] Watch for me by the moonlight
[05:20.77] I' ll come to thee by the moonlight
[05:23.31] though hell should bar the way!"
[05:26.31]
[05:27.54] She twisted her hands behind her
[05:30.29] but all the knots held good!
[05:33.30] She writhed her hands till her fingers
[05:35.97] were wet with sweat or blood!
[05:38.73] They stretched and strained in the darkness
[05:41.57] and the hours crawled by like years!
[05:44.34] Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
[05:47.21] Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
[05:50.32] The tip of one finger touched it!
[05:52.82] The trigger at least was hers!
[05:56.49]
[06:11.29] Tlottlot! Had they heard it?
[06:13.98] The horsehoofs were ringing clear
[06:16.77] Tlottlot, in the distance!
[06:19.49] Were they deaf that they did not hear?
[06:22.67] Down the ribbon of moonlight,
[06:25.29] over the brow of the hill,
[06:27.94] The highwayman came riding,
[06:30.93] Riding, riding!
[06:33.74] The redcoats looked to their priming!
[06:36.21] She stood up straight and still!
[06:39.18]
[06:40.56] Tlot in the frosty silence!
[06:43.36] Tlot in the echoing night!
[06:46.45] Nearer he came and nearer!
[06:48.96] Her face was like a light!
[06:51.80] Her eyes grew wide for a moment!
[06:54.50] She drew one last deep breath,
[06:57.34] Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
[07:00.46] Her musket shattered the moonlight,
[07:03.29] Shattered her breast in the moonlight
[07:05.86] and warned him with her death.
[07:09.19]
[07:10.24] He turned he spurred to the west
[07:12.87] he did not know she stood
[07:15.70] bowed, with her head o' er the musket,
[07:18.38] drenched with her own red blood!
[07:21.19] Not till the dawn he heard it
[07:24.10] his face grew grey to hear
[07:26.79] How Bess, the landlord' s daughter,
[07:29.77] The landlord' s blackeyed daughter,
[07:32.50] Had watched for her love in the moonlight,
[07:35.26] and died in the darkness there.
[07:38.52]
[07:39.71] And back, he spurred like a madman,
[07:42.54] shrieking a curse to the sky
[07:45.24] With the white road smoking behind him
[07:47.90] and his rapier brandished high!
[07:50.73] Bloodred were the spurs i' the golden noon
[07:53.62] winered was his velvet coat,
[07:56.35] when they shot him down on the highway,
[07:59.13] Down like a dog on the highway,
[08:02.05] And he lay in his blood on the highway,
[08:04.87] with the bunch of lace at his throat.
[08:08.70]
[08:24.81] Still of a winter' s night, they say,
[08:27.56] when the wind is in the trees,
[08:30.21] When the moon is a ghostly galleon,
[08:32.92] tossed upon the cloudy seas,
[08:35.81] When the road is a ribbon of moonlight
[08:38.85] over the purple moor,
[08:41.50] A highwayman comes riding,
[08:44.47] Riding, riding,
[08:47.31] A highwayman comes riding,
[08:49.90] up to the old inndoor
[08:53.96]
[09:36.41]
[10:12.56] END